This is why we keep Spencer

Anthony Spencer is one of the league’s best run defenders, and this game was a vintage display of why that is true. He leads the NFL this season amongst 3-4 OLBs in run stop percentage, a per snap measurement of how many stops he makes in the run game, and he led the team in this game in both tackles (7) and stops (6), making a constant nuisance of himself around the edge.

Anthony Spencer is one of the league’s best run defenders, and this game was a vintage display of why that is true. He leads the NFL this season amongst 3-4 OLBs in run stop percentage, a per snap measurement of how many stops he makes in the run game, and he led the team in this game in both tackles (7) and stops (6), making a constant nuisance of himself around the edge.

5 yr 30m pls

5 year 30 mill? For a guy who is making 8.5 right now?

It will be more like 5 year 45 mill. And I have no doubt we pay it (or franchise him again)

Anybody know how much dead money is in next year's cap figure? I thought I read there was 30 million dead money in this year's cap.

Dead money is irrelevant if you realize that new deals are always super cap friendly in the first two years. A 5 year deal for 45 mill might cost us about 3 mill in cap space for 2013. That'd be a huge savings from what he is costing against the cap now (around 8.5 mill).

Dead money is irrelevant if you realize that new deals are always super cap friendly in the first two years. A 5 year deal for 45 mill might cost us about 3 mill in cap space for 2013. That'd be a huge savings from what he is costing against the cap now (around 8.5 mill).

There simply is no reasonable argument that we can't afford him.

Those who argue otherwise are simply bad with arithmetic.

how about the fact that he will not be worth what we would have to pay him?

I love this forum. So many people talked trash about this guy from day one and now most people are worried about getting him resigned. He is our best Defensive player right now - better than Ware, yes I said it - and he is going to walk, and get Paid. He is going to go somewhere else and be a stud for several more years. He has always been real solid but overlooked due to Ware. Spencer does the dirty work and is about to get compensated for his efforts - large.

how about the fact that he will not be worth what we would have to pay him?

He's been our best defender this year and one of the best OLB in the league.

He's certainly worth the 9 or 10 mill a year he will get. Again, that presumes you understand that like most deals he's going to be backloaded and the "real" contract is going to be more like 3 years at 24 mill